hope u had a good time. how did u deal with the heat? it's been hot lately.
those minecraft stories are funny.
Chris Goes To Arizona, Kawhi MVP, and Tony Gwynn
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 On 06/17/2014 at 12:54 PM by goaztecs See More From This User » |
So Tuesday. We rarely meet here but today, but here we are. Hello Pixlbit! As you can see Me and Tuesday are trying to get along, so how are you good people? I’ve been away a couple of days, which you shall read about a bit later. This past weekend I took a trip to Arizona to visit family, help with some errands, and then back to Sunny California. Of course I did my normal thing of overpacking all the gadgets and games
I brought both handhelds, a ton of games for each and of course the tablet.
I also packed iPod Smallz with a ton of mixtapes, added a bunch of podcasts to the other iPod as well as this book
Yeah I had enough podcasts for 2.5 days, and a six hour audiobook. All that plus I have 20 chapters of the last installment of the Game of Thrones books (tell me how freaking awesome that season finale was). I was set, and I was kind of ok to miss the Season Finale of Thrones (thank you HBOGo for having this episode ready at 11pm Arizona time)
Four chapters of President Me and a couple of podcasts into my journey I spotted this
The California version is a tiny green sign.
After a couple of hours I was finally there, and it was time to spend time with the family. I watched my cousins play Minecraft and the 8 year old decided to explain to me what Mods and Skins are. He then showed me how they play Minecraft with a Call of Duty skin and they were running around shooting at other people. The game looked like Halo meets the 8-bit Super Mario Bros. game.
They played that and then I let them know that I had Minecraft on my tablet but I call it MINE-craft. We played a bit of some mode where one cousin was on the PC, and the others were on their tablets. They showed me they had swords by cutting my character. I did the same to them, took their weapons, and then they booted me from the game.
They explained the rules that I wasn’t allowed to kill their characters but they could chase me around. I said ok, and then proceeded to kill one of their pigs. I yelled out “The Lannisters send their regards” and was promptly booted from their game.
The youngest of the kids who sold me on getting Minecraft reminded me that he is good and I should let him play. Since he is a funny five year old, I let him design me a house. I wanted a pig shaped house but he said that’s weird and proceeded to make a regular house. The first thing he created was a big ass TV. He has priorities.
When he was done building a house with the big ass TV, I checked out some new offerings on Google Play
I guess Angry Birds has their RPG now
And it looks like there is a PGA version of Hot Shots Golf.
I downloaded both but haven’t tried it.
The next day was more of the same, but we also mixed in some looking through football cards. My 8-year-old cousin is a big Eli Manning fan, so as I was looking though his cards everytime a Jason Witten card would pop up I would say “Jason Witten, the best TE in the NFL”. I started doing that with other Cowboys “Dez Bryant, the best WR in the NFL” When it got to Romo I said “Tony Romo, QB in Dallas”, and even he got that and laughed.
Later that night after going out for dinner, it was time to watch some NBA Basketball (GO KAWHI GO!)
The Spurs were blowing out the Heat
Before the start of the finals last year I told a friend that Kawhi will keep LeBron in check, and be named MVP. I was a year early. The running joke among my friends is that Kawhi has the same expression for every emotion so to see this is an exception
GoAztecs posted this right after the game
GO KAWHI GO! It was such a great moment because one of our basketball players, the program that Steve Fisher built is the MVP of the NBA Finals! Aztec fans were going nuts! It was such a great feeling.
The next day for Aztec fans was filled with sadness
We lost one of our own. Coach Gwynn was always vocal about SDSU. He loved the school. He didn’t want Tony Gwynn Stadium named after him, but the then owner of the Padres pushed him to accepting it. I was at State for his first year coaching. It was awesome to have “Mr. Padre”, coming back home to coach his Aztecs. I didn’t start following the Padres until I got to San Diego, but I adopted them as my other team. There were so many characters on that team, but the one person that pulled it all together was Tony Gwynn. $5 Mondays were my favorite because for five bucks, along with $1.50 for the bus ticket, and $1 hotdogs, I got some fun entertainment for less than $10 and I got to watch one of the two best hitters in the history of baseball play.
Trying to get back to being lighthearted here…
Monday morning it was time to go back home. We packed up and headed back to California.
I tried out the 3DS camera. It was a grainy camera but I didn’t expect much. I left my 3DS XL on for the entire trip to earn some new Mii’s, and I think I added a total of 16.
I think I got all these folks from the freeway and the pit stop at McDonalds. I played some of the Mii games and I got to finish one of the puzzles
I thought this was cool. Quick question for you Nintendo pros: How do I get the fancy Mii hats? Do I have to play certain games to get the Metroid helmet, squid hat, and other things?
Random shot of The 10
On the way home a random icon popped up and we had to stop. It turns out that the tires on the rental had low pressure. Great going rental car company.
This was my view after checking out the tires.
Spotted this around Quartzsite Arizona. Arizona knows what’s up
I still think California needs a better entrance.
So that was my trip. I can’t really unpack because I’m back on the road again at the end of the week so I think my Quick Hits will be on Thursday. I have a couple of things to do but I’ll get to reading and replying to the blogs here on Pixlbit. I’m not avoiding you good folks, just a bit busy. Before I call it a blog I saw this on Instagram yesterday and I thought I’d share. Much respect to the Seattle Mariners
That’s all for now, more later!
-Chris
Lol at that age, my priority would have been a giant ass gaming rig.
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